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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 106 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Admetus enters from the palace, dressed in black and hair cut in mourning.
Chorus-Leader
But here, Admetus, the king of this land, is himself coming out of doors.
Admetus
I wish you joy, son of Zeus and child of Perseus' blood.
Heracles
Admetus, king of Thessaly, I wish you joy as well.
Admetus
If only I could have it! I know you wish me well.
Heracles
Why are you wearing the shorn hair of mourning?
Admetus
I am about to bury someone today.
Heracles
God keep misfortune from your children!
Admetus
The children I begot are alive in the house.
Heracles
Your father was of a ripe old age, if it is he that has departed.
Admetus
My father lives, Heracles, and my mother too.
Heracles
Surely your wife Alcestis has not died?
Admetus
There is a double tale to tell of her.
Heracles
Do you mean that she has died or is still alive?
Admetus
She is and is no more. It causes me grief.
Heracles
I'm still no wiser: you speak in riddles.
Admetus
Do you not know what doom she is fated
Enter by Eisodos A Heracles with his characteristic lion-skin and club. A servant goes in to tell Admetus of the arrival.
Heracles
Strangers, citizens of this land of Pherae, do I find Admetus at home?
Chorus-Leader
Yes, Pheres' son is at home, Heracles. But tell us what need brings you to Thessaly and to this city of Pherae.
Heracles
I am performing a certain labor for Eurystheus, king of Tiryns.
Chorus-Leader
Where are you bound? What is the wandering you are constrained to make?
Heracles
I go in quest of the four-horse chariot of Thracian Diomedes.
Chorus-Leader
How can you do that? Do you not know what kind of host he is?
Heracles
I do not. I have never yet been to Bistonia.
Chorus-Leader
You cannot possess those horses without a fight.
Heracles
But all the same, I cannot decline these labors.
Chorus-Leader
Then you will either kill him and return or end your days there.
Heracles
This is not the first such race I shall have run.
Chorus-Leader
If you defeat their m